> The bottom line: Little dfference in the bacterial count between the vintage jeans and the ones which had been worn for 13 days.<p>I don't see why we should care much about <i>count</i> of bacteria here. They suffuse our world whether we like it or not, and if we're lucky a benign one crowds out a hostile one.<p>As a practical matter we probably care more about <i>which</i> bacteria are there, or how dusty/greasy the pants are.